Employers fear role loss when TECs axed
The government's new post-16 education and training framework could undermine progress towards national learning targets, it has been claimed. Training and enterprise councils fear that the Learning...
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Lecturers protest at further redundancies Lecturers at Middlesex University lobbied its board of governors this week in protest at restructuring and redundancy. Members of lecturers' union Natfhe are...
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Wake up and smell the (fair trade) coffee, Mr President
Globalisation has much to offer our society, argues Grazia Ietto-Gillies, but it requires responsible governance if we are to reverse the trends of third-world exploitation and environmental damage...
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A three-pronged plan to take UK science and innovation to market
The white paper on science and innovation contains three main strands: enhancing the science base, innovation and knowledge transfer, and the public confidence in science. Enhancing the science base...
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Staring into space
European leaders want to integrate public space efforts into other activities. Jane Marshall reports. Space is no longer a separate entity, and space exploration must be fused with other activities...
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Free hand that draws inspiration from peers
A Cologne design course where no one tells students what to do is a teaching model. Pat Leon reports. Cologne Design School is still turning teaching upside down ten years after its creation. It was...
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British struggle with innovation
Many British firms are struggling with what innovation means despite almost universal recognition that it is critical to making companies and nations more competitive, according to a newly published...
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Autonomy row hits LSE as sponsor axes research
A row over the commercialisation of university research and academic freedom has erupted at the London School of Economics following the decision of a major research sponsor to prematurely pull the...
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Lecturers protest at 2,000 job cuts
Two thousand jobs are under threat in new universities and course closures are blocking access to key degree subjects such as languages and social work for working-class communities, lecturers' union...
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Great idea, but what's in it for us?
The government says regional development agencies will be the engines of enterprise. However, as Tony Tysome explains, the advantages for higher education are unclear and rather unexciting Chancellor...
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Caution: do not use life-saving substance
Pandora's Poison
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Why we should spurn equality and meritocracy
Against Equality of Opportunity
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Institutions join bid for NHS contracts
A consortium of universities, National Health Service trusts and small businesses are poised to bid for education and training contracts in health informatics - the use of information within the...
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Dr. Franz FISCHLER: Approaching the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops in the EU, Roundtable on research results relating to the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops
Dr. Franz FISCHLER: Approaching the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops in the EU, Roundtable on research results relating to the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops Brussels, 24 April 2003 Ladies...